1.\" $NetBSD: quiz.6,v 1.9 2002/09/26 18:32:03 wiz Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1991, 1993 4.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 7.\" Jim R. Oldroyd at The Instruction Set. 8.\" 9.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 10.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 11.\" are met: 12.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 14.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 15.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 16.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 17.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 18.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 19.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 20.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 21.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 22.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 23.\" without specific prior written permission. 24.\" 25.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 26.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 27.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 28.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 29.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 30.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 31.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 32.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 33.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 34.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 35.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 36.\" 37.\" @(#)quiz.6 8.1 (Berkeley) 5/31/93 38.\" 39.Dd May 31, 1993 40.Dt QUIZ 6 41.Os 42.Sh NAME 43.Nm quiz 44.Nd random knowledge tests 45.Sh SYNOPSIS 46.Nm 47.Op Fl t 48.Op Fl i Ar file 49.Op Ar question answer 50.Sh DESCRIPTION 51The 52.Nm 53utility tests your knowledge of random facts. 54It has a database of subjects from which you can choose. 55With no arguments, 56.Nm 57displays the list of available subjects. 58.Pp 59The options are as follows: 60.Bl -tag -width indent 61.It Fl t 62Use tutorial mode, in which questions are repeated later if you didn't get 63them right the first time, and new questions are presented less frequently 64to help you learn the older ones. 65.It Fl i 66Specify an alternative index file. 67.El 68.Pp 69Subjects are divided into categories. 70You can pick any two categories from the same subject. 71.Nm 72will ask questions from the first category and it expects answers from 73the second category. 74For example, the command 75.Dq quiz victim killer 76asks questions which are the names of victims, and expects you to answer 77with the cause of their untimely demise, whereas the command 78.Dq quiz killer victim 79works the other way around. 80.Pp 81If you get the answer wrong, 82.Nm 83lets you try again. 84To see the right answer, enter a blank line. 85.Ss Index and Data File Syntax 86The index and data files have a similar syntax. 87Lines in them consist of several categories separated by colons. 88The categories are regular expressions formed using the following 89meta-characters: 90.sp 91.Bl -tag -width "pat|pat" -compact -offset indent 92.It pat|pat 93alternative patterns 94.It {pat} 95optional pattern 96.It [pat] 97delimiters, as in pat[pat|pat]pat 98.El 99.Pp 100In an index file, each line represents a subject. 101The first category in each subject is the pathname of the data file for 102the subject. 103The remaining categories are regular expressions for the titles of each 104category in the subject. 105.Pp 106In data files, each line represents a question/answer set. 107Each category is the information for the question/answer for that category. 108.Pp 109The backslash character (``\e'') is used to quote syntactically significant 110characters, or at the end of a line to signify that a continuation line 111follows. 112.Pp 113If either a question or its answer is empty, 114.Nm 115will refrain from asking it. 116.Sh FILES 117.Bl -tag -width /usr/share/games/quiz.db -compact 118.It Pa /usr/share/games/quiz.db 119The default index and data files. 120.El 121.Sh BUGS 122.Nm 123is pretty cynical about certain subjects. 124